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Honestly Apple Notes works really well. It doesn't have much features, but its simplicity should be the baseline of any note taking app
by baby 4y ago
Honestly Apple Notes works really well. It doesn't have much features, but its simplicity should be the baseline of any note taking app
- aaronbrethorst 4y agoI find the simplicity of Notes to be a big win. I don’t need to be able to publish a blog from it—I just need to know if I still need to pick up a bunch of kale or not. Notes satisfies my three must-have requirements: it’s on every device my wife and I use, it allows mixing checklists with free form text, and we can effortlessly share information with each other. I just checked and found that I have 1,321 total notes stored in iCloud. These range from my daily todo lists (invaluable for end of year performance review documents, saying nothing of just remembering what I’m supposed to do), to the all-important shared grocery list, which we will both update whenever we’re shopping at the grocery store.
- canadiantim 4y agoHow do you get your notes out of apple notes though? They're like some sort of covetous demon who won't let your notes go once it consumes them. I literally went to the apple notes discord once and asked them directly and their response was basically "Apple Notes isn't design to be used for more than 100 notes"... so be very very careful about choosing to use Apple Notes cause you may never get your notes out of there
- halpmeh 4y agoWhere exactly are my notes supposed to be going?
- foobarian 4y agoA local filesystem directory with text files would be a good start.
- FearlessNebula 4y agoMany options, should you decide to leave the Apple ecosystem
- abhiyerra 4y agoYou can use AppleScript to copy them into other apps. Though a lack of an API is annoying.
- FearlessNebula 4y agoWait… Apple is providing support via Discord now? Anyways, if you have access to a Mac you can sync your notes via iCloud and then on Mac you can easily access the SQLite DB containing the notes. If you can figure out the schema it would be easy to write a tool to export this automatically. I’d guess someone has already built such a tool.
- dmd 4y agoI use this https://github.com/threeplanetssoftware/apple_cloud_notes_parser https://github.com/threeplanetssoftware/apple_cloud_notes_pa... and it works extremely well.
- canadiantim 4y agoyou're a legend. Thank you!
- tomjen3 4y agoApplescript can control Notes.
- seabriez 4y agoYeah, no, I am not giving my notes to lock-in devil.
- matthewmacleod 4y agoHardly that much of a lock-in issue with a SQLite DB with some gzipped protobufs in it.
- nicwolff 4y agoAt this point it works really well as an Evernote replacement, including automatic OCR and search of scanned files – and it titles the note from the top of the OCR text, which Evernote never got working.
- pantulis 4y agoSyncing is not as great as Evernote, for all the CloudKit prowess. I tried to import my 22k-ish notes from .enex dumps and somehow it managed to display different note counts on all my devices.
- spyda 4y agoI recently switched to Apple Notes for the ecosystem experience. I like it. That said, it *absolutely boggles my mind that there is no Markdown support*.
- baby 4y agoWhat do you mean by that? I write markdown in it
- kstrauser 4y agoIf it were easier to link from one note to another, that'd be my main note taking app.